Washing-machine.



PATENTBD MAY 24, 1904.

J. R. CARTER. WASHING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 6. 1902.

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PATENT OFFICE.

"JOH R. CARTER, or AUGUSTA, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR To ERNST H.

" HUENEFELD,- OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

WASHING-MACHINE.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 760,612, dated May 24, 1904. p

Application fiiea'ianuar 'aieoz. Serial No. 88,640. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: v Be it known that'I, J oIIN R. CARTER, a resi dent of Augusta, in the county of Bracken and Stateof Kentucky, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Washing- Machines; and I do hereby declare the following tobe a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable'others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

mechanism for continuously reciprocating the upper and lower rubbers in opposite directions. A further object is to provide a washingmachine having upper and lower rubbers with improved operating mechanism inclosed in the cover of the machine'and adapted to continuously reciprocate 'said rubbers in opposite directions and insure uniform movement ofthe rubbers.

With these objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construc: tion and combinations and arrangements of parts, as will bemore fully hereinafter 'de-' scribed, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a View in section illustrating my-improvements. Fig. '2 is a view in section taken on the line a: a of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is an enmodifiedforrn of my invention.

larged' detail view. Fig. 4 is a view of a Figs. 5 and 6 are views of other modifications.

1 represents the tub or body of the wash: ing-machine, and 2 a cover hinged thereon. The lower rubber?) is provided with trunnions 1, mounted to reciprocate in bearings in the body, and the upper rubber 5 is provided with trunnions 5, supported in elon- .ard 17, fixed to the upper rubber.

wheel 9 (or other operating device) secured on the outer end of the shaft. a On the inner end of shaft 8 a crank-arm 9 is located and has a crank-pin 10 at its outer end for a pitman 11,-and another crank-arm v 12 is made integral with crank-pin 10- and projects at an angle of about forty-five degrees to the arm 9 and has a crank-pin 13 at its free endfor a pitman 14:. These crank-pins 1O and 13 are disposed, at an angle of about ninety degrees with respect to the axis of the crank-shaft 8, taking the axis of said shaft as the apex of the angle, and the pin 13 is locateda greater distance from the shaft than pin 10 to give a longer stroke to pitman 141 than is given topitman 11,, so as to cause the upper and lower rubbers to move the same distance.

While I have shown and described the shaft 8, arms 9 12, and pins 10 and 13 as integral parts, it will be understood that they may, if desired, constitute separate parts secured together, and that the pin 13 may form a part of pitman 1 1 and hole or bearing in arm 12.

The pitman 11, above referred to, is prefer ably curved, as shown, and is'provided on its end with a holeor bearing to receive a lug or pintle 15 on a bracket 16, secured to a stand This lug or pintle is preferably located at a point below the horizontal plane of thepivotal point project through a of the upper rubber. Of course, if preferred,

a lug or pintle may be located on the pitman, and a bearing to receive the same might be secured to the standard, and various other forms of. pivotal connection might be employed.

The pitman 14 is pivotally connected to one end of the lower rubber, so that the rotation locating the crank-arms andpins out of alinement with each other and at approximately the angle explained the, rubbers are simultaneously reciprocated in opposite directions always the same distance and never permitting them to remain at a standstill nor move together in the same direction.

Instead of pivotally connecting the pitman 11 with the upper rubber 5 at a point below the horizontal plane of the pivotal point of the upper rubber I might, as shown in Fig. 4, project the standard above the plane of the pivotal point of the rubber and connect the pitman to the upper end of the standard. When the pitman is thus connected, it is necessary to reverse the positions of the crankarms, as clearly shown, so as to reciprocate the rubbers in opposite directions.

Various other slight changes might be resorted to in the general form and arrangement of the several parts described without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention, and hence I would have it understood that I do not wish to limit myself to the precise details set forth, but consider myself at liberty to make such slight changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a washing-machine, the combination with upper and lower rubbers, both pivotally mounted to oscillate, one within the other, of a shaft provided with two crank-arms located different distances laterally from the axis of the shaft and at different angles relatively to each other, a pitman connecting one of the cranks with the upper rubber and another pitman connecting the other crank with the lower rubber.

2. In a washing-machine, the combination with upper and lower rubbers, both pivotally supported, of a shaft terminating within the machine, crank-arms at the end of the shaft within the machine, said crank-arms located laterally from the axis of the shaft and at an crank-pin and at its other end to the upright,

and means fixed to said shaft for rotating it.

4:. In a washing-machine, the combination with a body and a cover therefor, a lower rubber pivotally mounted in the body and an upper rubber pivotally mounted in the cover, of a shaft mounted to rotate within the cover, crank-arms on the shaft located within the cover and at an angle to each other and laterally at different angles from the shaft, a pitman connecting one of said crank-arms with one end of the lower rubber, and another pitman connected at one end to the other arm and at its other end to the upper rubber.

5. In a washing-machine, the combination with a body and a cover therefor, a lower rubber pivotally mounted in the body and an upper rubber pivotally mounted in the cover, of a shaft mounted to rotate within the cover, crank-arms on said shaft located within the cover, a pitman located within the cover and connecting one of said crank-arms with one end of the lower rubber, another pitman also located within the cover and connected at one end to the other crank-arm and at its other end to the upper rubber below the horizontal plane of the pivotal point of the upper rubber.

6. In a washing-machine, the combination with a body and a cover therefor, a lower rubber pivotally mounted in the body, and an upper rubber pivotally mounted in the cover, of a shaftmounted to rotate within the cover, two crank-arms on said shaft disposed at different angles from the shaft and at different angles to each other, and two pitmen located within the cover, one of said pitmen connecting one of said crank-arms with the upper rubber and the other pitman connecting the other crankarm with the lower rubber.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN R. CARTER.

Witnesses:

S. W. Fosrun, It. S. FuReUsoN. 

